Hello from the east coast of Scotland

A little curiosity goes a long way.

I'm Tracy. I write stories, make games, paint unlikely things and spend a lot of time thinking about dogs, kindness and what might happen if we just tried it. Welcome to my very colourful collection of rabbit holes.

Come on in A little about me
Made with imagination, sea air & approximately too much coffee
The curious house

Pick a door. See where it leads.

There isn't really a theme here. Unless having far too many interests counts as a theme.

Room no. 01

Stories & stones

Old places, brave hearts and impossible possibilities.

 Room no. 02

Games & puzzles

Brain ticklers, happy accidents and the occasional triumph.

 Room no. 03

Art & oddities

Colourful experiments, beautiful messes and making things up.

 Room no. 04

All things pawed

Listening to animals, celebrating cats, choosing kindness.
Bluebucket Books · On the shelf

The books deserve their own shelf.

Stories from the Scottish stones, a coastal mystery with Flint, and a pocketful of puzzles.

Cover artwork for The Song of Sanctuary
BOOK 02

The Song of Sanctuary

Book two · In development
Cover artwork for The Silence of Serenity
BOOK 03

The Silence of Serenity

Book three · In development
Cover artwork for Flint
STANDALONE

Flint

Published · Coastal mystery for young readersGet Flint on Payhip ↗

The first Stones ebook and Flint are published. The next two Stones books are still in progress. Another story, The Bottleneck Beneath, is in the writing room.

Little things to lose yourself in

Come out and play.

No downloads, no scoreboards to impress, no reason not to have a go. Just games made for the joy of it.

Six ways to wander off for a while.
New favourite

Let Love Bloom

One little ripple changes a whole meadow. A flower-powered chain reaction with a big heart.

Play the game
The Stones · I

LINES

Find hidden runes. Think carefully. Remember that the obvious answer might not be the right one.

Play the game
The Stones · III

Turn the Stones

Rotate ancient rings, align the runes and wake the old mechanism. Wonderfully fiddly.

Play the game
The Stones · II

Align the Stones

Move stone after stone into place. A deceptively simple tangle to unpick.

Play the game
Wordplay

Story Crossword

Clues, characters and a few things that only the Stones might remember.

Play the game
Take your time

Rune Memory

Turn a few stones, find a few pairs. Sometimes the gentlest games are just the thing.

Play the game
Make things. See what happens.

Art doesn't always follow the rules.

Especially when it starts on a cracked window. I love colour, unexpected combinations and the rather fascinating conversation between human-made art and AI-made art.

“What if we tried it anyway?”

Play Airtist or Artist? Try colouring
Electric Garden: Original painted-window art by Tracy Buchan
Wildflower Symphony: AI artwork creatively directed by Tracy Buchan
Where the Colours Meet: Original painted-window art by Tracy Buchan
For the love of creatures

Fur, whiskers & very strong opinions.

Animals teach you a lot, especially when you stop talking long enough to listen.

Dog people, this one's for you

Meet them where they are.

I'm a dog walker and a believer in force-free, relationship-centred training. Puppers is an app in development, built around something simple: listen to the dog in front of you, notice what works, and build confidence together.

Puppers · A thoughtful app in development
Illustration for Puppers showing a happy dog, caring handler and app interface.
Meanwhile, in the cat department

Mable & Delores have opinions.

Two gloriously unimpressed comic cats, navigating the indignities of getting older with coffee, sarcasm and absolutely no intention of behaving.

Cats of a certain rage · Comic characters
Mable and Delores, two comic cats: Mable is small, scrawny and bespectacled; Delores is a taller, hairless sphynx with an unimpressed expression. Visit Mable & Delores
Out of the notebook · via owl post

A little wisdom for the road.

Meet the Curiosity House's resident keeper of stray thoughts. Powered by steam, clockwork and an entirely unreasonable amount of curiosity.

Turn the brass wheel. Watch the owl whirr into life and print a little something to take with you.

No guarantees of great wisdom. Quite a lot of enthusiasm. 🦉

✦ The Owl's Wisdom Works ✦Est. whenever curiosity struck
Wisdom slip no. 01

“The world has enough sensible ideas. Let's make something lovely.”

Hand-cranked · slightly peculiar · freshly printed
Turn the wheel for wisdom Or for a gloriously peculiar idea.
Cogitations & curiosities · One at a time
Made in
Scotland ♡
A wee introduction

Oh, hello. I'm Tracy.

Writer, game-maker, artist, animal lover and collector of half-formed ideas that occasionally turn into something quite wonderful. I live near the sea in St Andrews, Scotland, where the light changes constantly and old stones are never very far away.

I believe kindness is worth practising, curiosity ought to be encouraged and that creativity doesn't belong to one sort of person. I love a difficult puzzle, a good story, clever technology, a windy beach and an animal who knows exactly what it wants.

This isn't a grand portfolio. It's a little home for the things I love making. Pull up a chair. Have a wander.

With curiosity, Tracy ♡